Now on VPRO Uur van de Wolf, a documentary about Maurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of the famous childrens book Where the wild things are. The book, written in 1963, is the story of a young boy named Max, who is sent to his room only to find his imagination has created a new world there, populated by wild geographies and monsters of all kinds. Initially, its graphic portrayal of the toothy wild things concerned parents, but before long it was a favorite among children everywhere, having been translated into fifteen languages and selling more than two million copies.
Italian fashion house Prada has dismissed allegations by its former top retail manager in Japan that it had harassed her and asked her to fire “old, fat and ugly” managers.
“Following the many press reports published on Ms (Rina) Bovrisse’s termination of employment, (her) accusations regarding an alleged misconduct of the company towards her have no ground,” Prada said in a statement.
“The Japanese competent court has dismissed all of the employee’s accusations and had ruled that the termination of her employment was perfectly legitimate,” the statement said. Bovrisse told the Japan Times on Saturday that she had failed to reach an out-of-court settlement with Prada in an industrial tribunal and was planning further legal action against the company. Prada fired Bovrisse with effect from Monday. Bovrisse, alleging in December that Prada Japan’s top executive Davide Sesia and human resources manager Hiroyuki Takahashi discriminated against staff on the basis of their appearance, had filed a labour complaint before a Tokyo court. She said Sesia had asked her last May to “eliminate” some 15 shop managers or assistant managers he deemed “old, fat, ugly, disgusting or not having the Prada look”.
They’re banning the Alice in Wonderland movie!! You can’t imagine how pissed I am, why and who-ever the fock decided I don’t care, but this movie has everything and everyone in it I want in a movie. What about us?…millions of Burton/JohnnyD/Helena fans who have been waiting for almost a year, a YEAR! Whe have the right to see a Tim Burton movie on big screen. What would The Red Queen say?
